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Performing contagious bodies : ritual participation in contemporary art

By: Publisher: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013Description: xx, 223 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780230292703
  • 0230292704
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Contents:
The Spirit of Language in Things / Laresa Kosloff -- Contagious Participation / Ann Hamilton -- The Force of the Text / Alicia Frankovich and Marcel Duchamp -- Contagious Redundancy / Alex Martinis Roe -- The Force of Impotentiality / Richard Maloy and Bruce Nauman -- The Force of the Charm / Hannah Wilke.
Summary: "Performing Contagious Bodies explores live/body art and installation practices through theories of ritual and magic. It maps out an ambitious and thought-provoking study of live art - together with its documentation and traces - and uses the concepts of contagion, magic and ritual to open up a range of hotly-debated questions about the temporal aspects of live art, their relation to 'event' and durationality. Featuring discussion of a wide range of contemporary international practice, this book explores the intersections of performance studies, art history, anthropology and contemporary visual art practices"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 204-209) and index.

The Spirit of Language in Things / Laresa Kosloff -- Contagious Participation / Ann Hamilton -- The Force of the Text / Alicia Frankovich and Marcel Duchamp -- Contagious Redundancy / Alex Martinis Roe -- The Force of Impotentiality / Richard Maloy and Bruce Nauman -- The Force of the Charm / Hannah Wilke.

"Performing Contagious Bodies explores live/body art and installation practices through theories of ritual and magic. It maps out an ambitious and thought-provoking study of live art - together with its documentation and traces - and uses the concepts of contagion, magic and ritual to open up a range of hotly-debated questions about the temporal aspects of live art, their relation to 'event' and durationality. Featuring discussion of a wide range of contemporary international practice, this book explores the intersections of performance studies, art history, anthropology and contemporary visual art practices"-- Provided by publisher.

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